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DISREGARDING THE CORPORATE VEIL

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To act as if the corporation was not truly a separate entity, see piercing the corporate veil. … [Read more...]

DISPOSITION

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French law. This word has several acceptations; sometimes it signifies the effective marks of the will of some person; and at others the instrument containing those marks. 2. The dispositions of man make the dispositions of the law to cease; for example, when a man bequeaths his estate, the disposition he makes of it, renders the legal disposition of it, if he had died … [Read more...]

DISPOSITIVE FACTS

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Such as produce or bring about the origination, transfer, or extinction of rights. They are either investitive, those by means of which a right comes into existence, divestitive, those through which it terminates, or translative, those through which it passes from one person to another. … [Read more...]

DISPOSSESS

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To take away possession of real property, either legally or illegally by force. … [Read more...]

DISPOSSESS PROCEEDINGS

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Summary process by a landlord to oust the tenant and regain possession of the premises for non-payment of rent or other breach of the conditions of the lease. Of local origin and colloquial use in New York. … [Read more...]

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